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Showing posts with label noun. Show all posts
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Sunday, July 4, 2021

Transformation by addition – The strange incident of French nouns that were mutated by an adjective

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  [Dog in moonlight*] Meaning is contextual. In the case of words, the form, position and connected modifiers define their actual significan...
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Saturday, June 9, 2018

Dressing up the verb

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English is famous (or infamous) for words having multiple meanings, some with no apparent connection with them.   A charming subgroup of s...
Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Verb(al)izing

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In root-poor languages, such as Hebrew, all roots are used to their maximum in terms of producing noun, verb, and adjective forms.  For ex...
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